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UNITED STATES PATENT 'OFFIcE.

JOSEPH T. O. COVE, OF AMHERST, NOVA SGOTIA, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN N. VALLEY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,617, dated July 17, 1883.

7 Application filed September 11,1882. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH 'I. O. COVE, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at-Amherst, in the county of Cumberland,- Province of Nova Sootia, Dominion of Canada, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Chairs, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and eX- act to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said'invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective view, and Fig. 2 a side elevation.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates to the class of chairs known as folding chairs and it consists in a-novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a new and more desirable article of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use.

The body of the chair consists of a framework, A B I O D and E F G H, pivoted or hinged together at a, as seen in the drawings. A horizontally-arranged seat, S, is pivoted in the rails A B at d d, and provided on its lower front section with the serrated bars or toothed racks m m, with which the upper ends of the rails E F engage in supporting the seat, as shown in Fig. 1. I V

A pair of rockers, J K, are employed for converting the chair into a rocking-chair whenever desired. These rockers are each provided with two shoe-sockets, b I), having open sides f, and arranged on the rockers in such manner that the side openings face each other, thus enabling the legs of the chair to be readily introduced therein, where they will be held securely in position by pressure on the seat S in using the chair in a manner which will be readily obvious to all conversant with such A are lowered, causingthe front edge of the seat S to be elevated, the upper ends of the rails E F are moved outwardly to correspond, thus leveling the seat.

It will be obvious that by detaching the rockers J K the chair may be folded into a very small space for purposes of transportation.

Having thus explained my invention, What I claim is The combination, in a folding'chair, of the crossing .legs hinged together, and detachable rockers provided withthree-sided sockets, the open sides of the sockets of each rocker facing each other, whereby the legs may be readily introduced therein, said rockers being held in position by the spreading of the legs and the pressure upon the seat, substantially as described.

JOSEPH T. O. COVE. Witnesses:

O. A. SHAW,

H. E. METOALF. 

